Industrial Spy

Bastard

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Definition

1. a person who steals, especially secretly and usually without violence.

Evidence

Quotes

Grandpa Joe: What difference does it make where he got it? Point is, he got it.2

Willy Wonka: No telling.Grandpa Joe: No telling what?3

Willy Wonka: I daren't sell it yet, it's still too powerful.. there'd be children floating around all over the place.Grandpa Joe: Let's take a drink Charlie!4

Grandpa Joe: I'll get even with him if its the last thing I do. Slugworth wants a gobstopper, he'll get one.5

Observations

Grandpa Joe enjoys a nice belt from a stolen beverage.6

Analysis

What better definition of a spy is there than knowledge thief?

From not caring where or how Charlie got a loaf of bread to stealing fizzy lifting drinks to wanting to know the exact limits of what he can tell, Grandpa Joe displays a certain moral ambiguity about other people's property, both physical and intellectual.

If you factor in his more exotic thefts like sponging off his daughter-in-law for twenty years, robbing Charlie of his innocence, and his steadfast insistence that only he can accompany Charlie, it becomes clear that Grandpa Joe is a world-class thief and con-man. He knows how to work the system and the people around him to get exactly what he wants, regardless of the cost to others.

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